ooooo glad to hear you knocked it on the head!!!
is cold and grey again here have you got any sun?
i have these huge orange poppies in the garden that are as high as my chin now

*wonders how tall chins is* I love poppies. THere are some orange ones in the village growing at the side of the road along with the red ones, gorgeous!

It is bright sun here now although there have been many showers and even some thunder here today. I've done lots of gardening!

You should be having watermelon daily...it has so many health benefits!!

yes i've had loads of those little orange poppies but now my BIG HUGE dark orange poppies are out

i love poppies especially the fields of red poppies.

I have Galia melon every day i wonder if that counts?

you made me fancy melon and i've got some galia AND some fresh pineapple - lidl are selling pineapples for 75p!!

eta oh my god it's delicious!

Nowhere near as good for you as watermelon. I should swap melons if I were you!

Beautiful shot of the poppy All the uncut fields and hedgerows hereabouts are full of them and other myriad flowers. Last year mini twass took some pics, I will have a look for them...........

watermelon doesn't taste of anything though except well weird water...

poppies, cornflowers, daisies, lovliness!

ooo yes!! im waiting for a sunny day to have a drive around the verges again all the ox eye daisies are out the are taller than me!

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Hedgerow poppies!

That's a fabulous picture!

You can't be buying fully ripe watermelons....they should be sweet and juicy and full of flavour. Underripe ones have far less health benefits. You need ones full of black seeds....those are the ripe ones!

lovely! can see all sorts in that hedge!!! trying to see what the little yellow flower is

eta it looks like charlock

St John's wort or Loosestrife I expect. Since living here I have seen so many more wild plants than I ever did in North London despite living in the green belt bit.

Actually might be Celandine with those four petals

hasn't got enough petals for them....looks a bit like charlock but looks lovely whatever it is!

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yes could be greater celandine!!

I discovered a frond of cow parsley coming up in the garden...well chuffed! I nearly chopped it with my shears but then realised what it was. The seeds must have blown in from the hedgerow

ooooo!!! maybe it will self seed into a clump for next year??

i've taken a picture of one of my walls in the garden cos it has so much stuff growing out of it!! i 'll upload it later and show you!

Fabulous, I love old walls, all manner of lichens and other plants grow out of them!

I hope it does, I will try to collect the seed and scatter it at the bottom of the garden where wilderness is

Am I still in Big Brother?

Laura, is this you? Your puppies are indeed big and orange.

Marco? Is that you? Someone has scribbled all over your face

This is The Wall when Winter has been and gone

there's all sorts growing out the wall the big clumpf campanulas and ferns all self seeded!
The tiny white dots along the top is ivy leaved toadflax, there's also foxgloves, broad leafed willowherb, there were primroses earlier in the spring and just out of shot there is an enormous wall flower.... i think on the right of the ferns is a small birch tree!!!

That's a fabulous wall! So much to look at I'm sure like me you spend hours in your garden just absorbing it all.

Speaking of absorbing did you see that leech swallowing a toadlet WHOLE?

My yard is tiny but every morning when i wake up the first thing i do is Surveying My Estate that involves the dead heading, checking what's happened overnight and any emergency watering, it also usually involves some photography
It's lovely isn't it? just seeing what's happening....if we have any sun i like to sit quietly and watch the bees and butterflies and hoverflies!

i know!!! Its been great tonight the Little Owls are lovely i like the reed warblers too did you see the adder the other night? and fingers crossed the sparrowhawk chicks arrive before they finish broadcasting for the year! I love the avocets they're beautiful...Oh god puffins!!!
I LOVE PUFFINS!!

I love Puffins too! I went to Pembrokeshire with two old school pals last summer and saw lots of them when we went on a boat trip round the coast. Gorgeous! I missed seeing the adder!

Will you continue with Versailles? I thought I would stick with it in case it improves!

Oh you're so lucky i'm quite envious! my friend who lives on shetland taunts me with really close up photos of all the puffins near her!! they are so unusual looking and much tinier than i thought! very cute.

the adder was interesting, i think it was the reed warbler who gave a warning cry and all the wee chicks ran away form the nest just as an adder crawled in shot and checked the nest out
last year i remember seeing the adder predate a nest

i might try later on iplayer i've switched over to have the bourne legacy for now
let me know if it's worth watching again Twass

It's hard to tell so far, much as it has already been.....

Nature is often cruel as well as beautiful.

There's an African prince at the court of Versailles and Louis has commanded the Queen to entertain him

ermmmm....has anyone fed chins today?